Grain-transfer car



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GRAIN TRANSFER GAR. N0.269,541.

Patented 1360.26, 1882.

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L. D'. RICHARDSON, J. R. TRIMMER 81B. R. LO0MIS GRAIN TRANSFER GAR.

Patented Dec. 26, '1882.

7 7 I 7. 7 wmmumwmmm WWW WW UNITED STATES PATENT rarest LLoYI) D. RICHARDSON, JOHN R. TRIMMER, AND EUGENE n. LOOMlS, OF

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

GRAIN-TRANSFER CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,541, dated December 26, 1882,

Application filed October 9,1882. (No model.) r

To all whom it may concern: v belt T and the driving-wheel S the car may be .Be it known that we, LLOYD D. RIGHARD- moved without the aid of a locomotive.

. SON, JOHN R. TRIMMER, and EUGENE E. The engine L is of any of the ordinary con- LOOMIS, residing at Chicago, in the county struetions of upright boiler and engine, and

of Cook and Stateof Illinois, and citizens of its principal use is to drive the elevator by the United States, have invented a new and means of the belt M and the wheels N 0, 5 useful Improvementiu Grain Weighing and which are on the same shaft, the shaft not Transfer Cars, of which the following is a full been shown; but it may be located in beardescription, reference being had to the accomings on top of the roof, or be supported by .{O panying drawings, in which-- hangers under the roof, as may be most coni Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section, venient and best adapted to the height of the l and Fig. 2 a cross-section. elevator. The wheel N may be located nearer l The object of this invention is to improve. the elevator, and the wheel R or other proper i the car patented to us September 19, 1882, and driving-wheel located in that place may be I I 5 to adapt a portion of our improvement to use used for driving it.

in a smaller car by bringing the weighing-bin The car is made sufficiently longer than an'6 lower down in the car; and its nature conordinary box freight-car to take in the engine I sists in connecting the weighing-bin with the and machinery, as it is designed that the elevator, and in arranginga delivery-spoutin weighing-bin Gr should be sufticiently large 1 2o connection with the elevator so that the grain and strong to hold the full load of an ordinary 1 may be first delivered into the weighing-bin grain or box car. The bin Gis made'ot'fram- 7o 7 and afterward over it by the elevator, and in ing and boards of suiiicient strength to hold l the combination of parts hereinafter de a car-load of grain, and its bottom is inclined l scribed and claimed as new. and its parts converge to the spout or open- 25 In the drawings, A indicates the body or ing H, and are supported upon the timbers K frame-work of a car. The form shown is of of the platform weighing-scale, the bin taking the usual construction of a box freight-car. B the place of the platform, the scale-beam and are trucks G,elevator-casiug; D, elevator; E, connections with the frame-K, are not shown, delivery-spout; F,delivering-spout; Gr,weighas they are of the ordinary construction and c ing-bin, and H opening in the bottom thereof; may be located at any suitable place in or out- I, receiving-spout for the weighing-bin; J, reside of the car. 8o ceiver; J, opening l'orareceiving-spout tocon- Immediately beneath the opening H is 10- nect with an adjoining car; K, frame-work of cated a receiving-spout, I, so arranged that the scale, upon which the bin G is supported; the grain from the weighing-bin G may, by

5 L, vertical boiler and engine; M, driving-belt; sliding through the bottom of the opening H,

N, driving-pulley; U, driving-pulley for the How again to the elevator. elevator. The pulleys O and N being on the The casingO of the elevator and the trucks same shaft, the shaft is not shown. P is the B and the wheels 0 P are of the usual con- I lower wheel of the elevator; It, the balancestruction, and do not require a special descrip- 40 wheel; S, sprocket-wheel; T, chain or metal tion.

band; U, braces or trusses for the car, andV The grain is elevated and is discharged at railway-rails. the discharge-spout E into the bin G or into The car A is of the usual box freight-car the spout F, to be conveyed into a car standconstruction, except that it is provided with iug upon an adjoining track. When the grain 5 a doorway, A, only on one side. The trucks is received from an adjoiuingcar it is directed B are also of the usual construction, except from a suitable spouting through the opening 5 that the axleot one pair of wheels on the truck J into the receiver J, which receiver is located nearest the engiueis provided witha sprocketbelow the bottom'of the elevator-car and lower wheel or collar, so that by the use of the chain than the bottom of an ordinary grain-car, so

has been weighed into a receiving-oar, so that when the grain is to be weighed it is first passed into the bin, then through the spout I into the receiver J a second time, and on such second elevation delivered through the spout F to its proper car. The spouts E and F are arranged to be connected or disconnected, according as to whether the grain is to flowinto the bin G or across it into the receiving-car.

This is most easily done by making the lower section of the spout F fixed to the bin, as shown, and sliding the upper section back and i'orth; and it will be found advisable also to provide the opening J with a door or slide that'can be closed when the grain is passing from the bin G through the spout I to the elevator. Such door, however, will not be necessary when a permanent receiving-spout is attached to the receiver J at the opening J.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, in a grain-transfer car, of the bin G, having the opening H, with the spout I, elevator D, and spouts E F, substantially as described.

2. In a grain-transfer car, the combination of the receiver J, openings or spouts J and I on opposite sides with the elevator D. bin G, scale-frame K, and delivery-spouts E F, all arranged and operating substantially as specified.

LLOYD n. RICHARDSON.

JOHN. R. TRIMMER.

EUGENE E. LOOMIS.

Witnesses:

L. L. BOND, V. L. PRXCE. 

